Dec 08 2006 09:51 PM
ABC News correspondent David Wright brings a well-traveled perspective to his reports for "World News with Charles Gibson," "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." In the past five years, he has visited some 40 countries, covering major news events in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, India, Asia and the U.S.
Wright joined the network in November 2000 as a correspondent for ABC's Los Angeles bureau. Prior to that, he was a reporter and substitute anchor for KRON, then the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area. A native of Buffalo, NY, Wright is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College. He earned a master's degree at Oxford University, where he studied Renaissance English literature at Merton College.
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David Wright's poetry, essays and reviews have apppeared in print and online in Artful Dodge, Anon, The New Pantagruel, The Christian Century, The Nimble Spirit Review, The Avatar Review, and The Midwest Quarterly, among many others. David is the author of two poetry collections: A Liturgy for Stones (2003) and Lines from the Provinces (2000).
He has been awarded an Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowship for Poetry and has given readings throughout the United States. He and his family recently returned to live in Central Illinois after several years in the Chicago area. Since 2001, he has taught writing and literature at Wheaton College.
"David Wright's poems are alive with music and motion."
—Jean Janzen
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David, from St. Louis, Missouri, is an arranger and composer of vocal music. He specializes in vocal harmony, especially barbershop harmony, but his work often integrates the close harmony style with jazz, blues, gospel, country, doo-wop, and contemporary a cappella. He is musical advisor and two-time former director for the St. Charles Ambassadors of Harmony, a 100-voice male chorus which won the Barbershop Harmony Society's International Chorus Contest in 2004 and had ranked as a top five medalist nine out of the previous ten years. David is musical consultant and arranger for the ten-time international champion Dallas Vocal Majority, as well as for the international champion quartets Ambiance (now retired), Gas House Gang, Joker's Wild (now retired), Nightlife, Revival, Michigan Jake, Four Voices, and Gotcha. He has researched the origins of barbershop harmony and teaches a course on the history of the barbershop style at the Barbershop Harmony Society's Harmony College and at Sweet Adelines International's International Education Symposium.
Professionally, David is a mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Columbia University, New York City, and is now a Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. As a researcher he has been an invited speaker at a number of international mathematics conferences.
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Dr. David Wright is an established expert on the technical aspects of arms control, particularly those related to missile defense systems and missile proliferation. He has testified before Congress on arms-control issues and is a frequently quoted source in the New York Times and on NPR. He has worked for a number of years on projects to help train technical arms control experts in other countries, especially Russia and China.